“Trapshooting – The Sport Alluring”
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/BBM/1915/bbm144af.pdf Trapshooting knows no caste, and refuses to recognize social distinction—it accepts a man as a man. His success or failure at the sport is entirely in his own hands. The game appeals to all ages and conditions of men, and is one of the few sports in which both sexes meet on equal terms.
That trapshooting has elements which attract men who breathe and live sport is evident by its naming among its enthusiastic followers such men as Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh National League team; Mathewson, the idol of New York fandom; “Big Chief” Bender, the Indian twirler of the world's championship Athletics, and Collins, their “star” player; also
Ty Cobb of the Detroits, and many other baseball celebrities. Lester German forsook the New York Nationals to become a professional “player” in the “sport alluring.”
